Endoscopic sphincterotomy with extraction of the stones is often the only treatment for stones in the bile duct in patients considered unfit for surgery. Most of these patients fare well even when they have stones in the gall bladder; cholecystectomy for biliary colic, acute cholecystitis, or jaundice was necessary in less than 15% followed up for up to seven years. 2 After the procedure patien...

A 76-year-old female patient was admitted at hospital with diarrhea, weight loss, fatigue and abdominal pain. Her physical examination and laboratory test were normal; however, the radiological images showed an atrophic pancreas with cystic dilatation of the main pancreatic duct. Severe dilatation of the main pancreatic duct was confirmed on EUS, with the presence of round images of mucinous ag...

There is lymph humor/lymphocytopoietic factor (LHF) in various tissues. However, a definite substance or a definite combination of any substances of LHF in thoracic duct lymph remains unknown. Justification for the conception of a new approach to revealing of LHF composition in native thoracic duct lymph is based on a discovery of mitoses in native thoracic duct lymph of normal immature rabbits...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To assess the safety and efficacy of transcatheter closure of residual ductal flow after initial surgical ligation of the arterial duct. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Between June 2005 and December 2009, transcatheter occlusion of residual postsurgical ductus arteriosus was performed in six children. RESULTS The mean patient age was 10±5.5 years; mean post-procedural time s...

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